F3b SwimSports+
· v4.10
About
CIQ 2020 Best Active Lifestyle App
CIQ 2019 Developer of the Year
This is a Premium application for $3USD, and the free version is for a limited time of 15 minutes.
Our watches need better support for Swimming and SwimSports+ does just that. Supports:
GPS+GLONASS, GPS+GALILEO, GPS+ BEIDOU, GNSS++ L1, GNSS+++ L5, AutoGNSS(SatIQ): Open Water, Lap Pool Swim, In-Place Swimming, KickBoard, Water Cardio and Hot Tub/Spa sessions.
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Features:
-Easy read
-Easy 'Look and Feel with all fbbbrown and Garmin apps
-8 Activities in one application(Open Water*, Lap Pool*, Stationary swimming, kick-board ,Water Cardio and HotTub/Spa)
-5 Lap Methods: Manual Button, AutoLap (by Position, by Distance, by pool length and by pool set)
-Supports Transition to the next Activity
-5 Metric Lap Pool Distance detection that works.*** Counts laps and distance.
-4x faster GPS for open water supported GLONASS GALILEO
-IQ Graphs:Distance/Stroke, Seconds/stroke, Energy Expenditure Consumption, SwimSports+ SWOLF
-IQ DATA: Average Stroke Rate, SwimSports+ Distance, Average distance/stroke, Total Strokes, and Battery used
-Sensor Support (Heart Rate, Optical HR# and Tempe temperature, Sa02 (CIQ 3.2))
-Adjustable pool length with no size restrictions
-Supports Meters and Yards
-Quick Change: Activity Select, Pool Size and Lap Method
-Summary Screen Rest Screen and 3 LARGE screens
-Quick Detect Rest Mode Screen (Lap Swim modes only)
-31 different data to pick from.
Quick How to use:
1.) Select Activity at watch at start screen long press Menu Button or long touch screen
2.) For Lap Swim, set pool Length (only needs done once)
3.) Select Lap Method
-Manual - Use lap button press
-Autolap By Distance: Set lap distance either Meters or Yards
- Autolap By Set Detect: Detects short pause in arm movement at pool length for distance calculation.
-- Approximately short 0.5 seconds - 1.0 second watch pause is needed to detect length distance.
--To complete Set, long watch pause (~4sec), Swim+ app will lap and start Rest Mode.
-Autolap By Pool Length Detect: Detects short pause in arm movement.
--Approximately short 0.5 seconds - 1.0 second watch pause is needed to detect length completion and Lap.
-Autolap Lap By Position. Open Swim only.
4.) Start Press Start to Start Activity, Press Start again to Pause, Save or Discard activity
5.) Lap Mode: press lap button for Rest Mode. Screen will blink yellow during rest
6.) Vist https://www.fbbbrown.com/help-faq/app-help/ for more
Modes:
Open water: GPS on, GPS Distance and Lap by Distance and Position enabled
Lap swimming: GPS Off, enable lap, stroke detection and Lap by Distance and by Lap Detection.
Generic Open water and Lap swimming: Saves Activity as 'Other' to allow optical heart rate. After save to Connect, Edit Activity to Swim.
In-place swimming - Special Lap Mode that allow detection of distance per stroke.
Kick Board - Special Lap Mode that Labels activity as Kick Board.
Water Cardio - An Activity type that allows water activities other than swimming: Polo, Aerobics, Running, low impact water fun.
Hot Tub / Spa - Saves relaxation time to maintain recovery time.
NOTES:
-GPS Modes or AutoLap by Position will not work with Breast, Side Strokes or strokes that arms are always submerged.
*Generic Activities available to bypass optical HR restrictions.
**GPS is 4x more active for improved open water.
**GPS signal is blocked while GPS receiver is submersed in water. Results may provide improved results due to increased sampling.
***Due to Garmin policy, Non-GPS distance values cannot be written to the main distance fields in Garmin Connect. SwimSport+ writes the NonGPS Distance Data in CIQ data section.
#Optical HR will use ‘Other’ Activity Type.
What's new
To purchase SwimSports+ for $3 USD +fee for the Email Activation (Activation is provided after payment, so no wait!)
Purchase: https://www.fbbbrown.com/garmin-connect-iq/
SwimSports Help: https://www.fbbbrown.com/help-faq/app-help/
UNLOCK: https://www.fbbbrown.com/garmin-connect-iq/help_faq/
SwimSports+ v4.10 (7/26/2026)
• no source changes, added Hebrew language
SwimSports+ v4.9 (7/19/2026)
• no source changes, rebuilt due language issue
SwimSports+ v4.8 (6/30/2026)
• Updated SwimSports Start Menu (CIQ v3.0+)
• Stability Update
• Adds new Models
• Includes all updates with Connect IQ SDK 9.2.0
• Using Connect IQ SDK 9.2.0-2026-06-09-92a1605b2